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Allen Payne, Christopher Eccleston, Glenn Fitzgerald

Sonia, both attractive and self-determined, suppresses her wandering soul under a gentle marriage to the promising young scholar Mendel and their infant son. Upon Mendel's appointment to a prestigious...( read more  read more... ) Yeshiva, the young family is folded into Brooklyn's Hasidic community. Sonia moves uncomfortably within the crowded community; strangely solitary but for the companionship an omnipresent Beggar Woman, and the apparition of her young brother Yossi, who died during their childhood. Mendel's close-knit family includes his firmly grounded sister Rachel and an entrepreneurial brother, Sender. While the cloistered community fuses Sonia into its tapestry, Sender recognizes that Sonia shares his common desire to be a free-spirit. They strike-up an affair as Sender encourages her independence with a position at his select clientèle jewelry shop. As Sonia bests her competition, enchants and mingles with her customers, she finds a greater part of herself in a world that threatens both her security and future.

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R, 120 min.

Directed by: Boaz Yakin

Release Date: March 25, 1998

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DVD Release Date: January 18, 2000

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Flixster Reviews (54)

  • dreamfaeries
    November 12, 2007
    dreamfaeries
    Very well done film. Don't miss watching this one.
  • ileo
    December 16, 2007
    ileo
    Great film!
  • r8inbowbrite
    February 21, 2008
    r8inbowbrite
    it was interesting at times but mianly borung as fuck
  • jessenia2424
    May 9, 2007
    jessenia2424
    i have heard this is a really good movie
  • MissNin
    March 20, 2007
    MissNin
    This movie, starring Renée Zellweger, Julianna Margulies and Allen Payne, has the same concept as Saved!, only that it is taking place within the Jewish community instead. Sonia (Zellweger) marries Mendel, a Jew who is more infatuated by God than his own family. Sonia does not sh...( read more)are his enthusiasm for religion and she becomes more and more restless. Basically the movie is about following your own path, but also the difficulties in doing so with pressure from family and society. A good enough movie.
  • zeiko18
    January 5, 2007
    zeiko18
    This looks so bad, I almost want to see it, but I probably won't.
  • africandanile
    November 20, 2006
    africandanile
    this one is good too

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